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Sophie Turner and the misogyny of the celebrity PR machine


by Roe McDermott
20th Sep 2023

@sophiet on Instagram

Audiences are no longer accepting misogynistic attacks on women and are thinking critically about the legitimacy and integrity of the news stories they consume. But the question remains: are we going to protect all women the way we are protecting Sophie Turner?

I need to come clean: I don’t really know who Joe Jonas is. I hear the words “The Jonas Brothers” a lot, and I once stayed in a hotel where one of them was having a party. Other guests in the lobby seemed very excited about this fact. I was not, simply because I couldn’t name you any of their songs and I have never watched any of the television shows or films that they’ve...

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